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Damien Williams can carry the load for the Chiefs in 2019

On November 30 — just two days before they were to play the Oakland Raiders in California — the Kansas City Chiefs released star running back Kareem Hunt. It happened only hours after TMZ released a video of an incident involving Hunt that took place in the hallway outside his offseason apartment in Cleveland the previous February.

Ever since then, the question being posed across the league has been, “What will the Chiefs do to replace Kareem Hunt’s production?”

It hasn’t been an unfair question.

After fumbling the ball on his first NFL carry, Hunt led the league in rushing during his rookie season, amassing 1,327 yards (at 4.